This LS 2014 Elections ... will you, the voter, make a promise ?

“The AAP will make no promises to you. Instead it will ask you to make a promise. This time you will not cast your vote on the basis of kinship. You will forget caste; you will drive away the distributors of alcohol and money. AAP has not come to ask you for your vote. If there is anything we ask of you, it is to have faith in yourselves; and to listen to the voice of your soul. This election is not about the victory or defeat of political parties; it is about victory or defeat within ourselves. In front of the voting machine, we must think of the future of our children, the future of our city and our dreams for the future of our country.” Short link http://bit.ly/meera4mumbai

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

WHY INDIA CANT AFFORD AAP TO LOSE

Thursday, April 3, 2014

WHY INDIA CANT AFFORD AAP TO LOSE

In
1999, while doing a part time job during college, one noon sitting in
office I read an article on some political outfit started by some
ex-IITians. They had named it Parivarthan (Change). In an era where
Laloo Yadav beamed from television screens, I remember marveling at the
thought of qualified professionals entering politics but smugly wondered
at what few guys can do to an established, strong fortress of a system.
What I didn’t remember reading was the name of the guy who started it –
Arvind Kejriwal.

Today
Arvind Kejriwal has stormed into this corrupt political bastion with
the fearlessness of a suicide bomber. Sections of all the pillars of
democracy (judiciary, politicians, administrative and the media) are
working overtime to bring him down. The corrupted system unlike the
large sections of the Indian populace clearly understands Kejriwal. For
the CORRUPT system, Kejriwal is cancerous - hence they are using the
radiation of scrutiny to burn AAP’s progress before it spreads through
the country and kills them.

Otherwise,
can anyone explain the media scrutiny of a party that the media itself
claims will get only 4 seats? The relentless attacks by senior leaders
from BJP, Congress, and Shiv Sena, etc. on a party who they claim will
not win any seat outside Delhi. Why are all of them scared of Kejriwal?
Why is the unintentional falling of 2 metal detectors in Churchgate
station more important than the numerous instances of intentional
vandalizing by political parties (burning, breaking property worth of
Crores?) The fining of the rickshaw driver who ferried Kejriwal more
hyped than BJP and Congress giving Lok Sabha tickets to Kings of
Corruption – Yeddyurappa & Srimullu (BJP of Raping Mines fame) and
Pawan Bansal (Congress of Coalgate fame).

Please
fine AAP’s rickshaw driver or its leaders for breakage of any laws
however small but also scrutinize the list of candidates from BJP and
Congress which is more like wanted list of criminals. AAP on the other
hand, is asking the public to source proof in case any of their
candidates have any criminal background, and publishing the source of
its funds – why is no one highlighting this? (According
to Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), 35 per cent of Modi’s BJP
candidates face criminal charges; of them 17 percent are serious
charges. And, 27 per cent of Rahul’s Congress candidates face criminal
charges, with 10 per cent facing serious charges.) ).
Meanwhile Kejriwal has ensured topics that were spoken in hush tones –
are now mainstay in political discourse – from Robert Vadra to Adani,
from Paid Media to Ambani.

When
the entire intelligence machinery was unable to find anything
corruptible in Kejriwal, the political class latched on to a term he
uttered in sarcasm – Anarchist. Anarchy is not when a CM sleeps on the
pavement in 4 degrees on a cold Delhi night to fix accountability on the
police force to check rapes happening there. Anarchy is when a strong
CM with 56 inch chest can’t stop the public rape of women, flinging of
toddlers on rocks, burning of pilgrims in a train or the relentless and
well organized mass killing of over 1000 people in 2 weeks. Anarchy is
when a death of a PM is used as an excuse to mass murder an entire
community with no justice even after 30 years. Anarchy is when bombs
explode in trains during rush hours – one station after another- and you
are frantically wondering who you will lose at the end of it. Anarchy
is when Kashmiri pundits find themselves homeless one fine morning.
Anarchy is when you buy onions at 100 rupees and the prices of petrol
have the guts to compete with Sachin’s milestones. Anarchy is when you
go to a railway station or a five star restaurant and witness some gun
toting men spraying bullets like kids spray coloured water during Holi.

This
Anarchy exists because the ruling class in its failure to address core
issues of governance has distracted the population with divisive and
emotive issues. The BJP calls us Hindus and Muslims, The Congress –
minorities and majority. Mayawati calls us backward and forward castes.
Shiv Sena/MNS pit us as Marathi Vs North Indians while the left parties
classify us as rich and poor. Here is a party which is making an attempt
to call us INDIANS. If we don't respond to this call then we will risk
the DNA of our nation. As Indians, before we get swayed by the emotive
rhetoric, we need to understand that onions costs the same for Hindus
and Muslims, your Maratha pride or Gujarati Gaurav can’t save you from a
pothole on pathetic roads, a bridge doesn’t collapse after counting the
number of backward castes travelling on it. The
emotive issues are a perfect foil to cover the core issues – corruption
and bad governance. Corruption breeds lacunas and bottlenecks in
everything from defense to development. It also plagues seemingly
unrelated issues - Nirbhaya’s ordeal could have been avoided if the
corrupt collusion between Delhi transport authority and the bus owners
didn’t allow busses to ply with curtains. Meanwhile
critics found a new name for kejriwal, "bhagoda" (desserter or one who
runs away). A man who challenges the might of Ambani, Sonia, Modi and
the Paid Media has not come to run away. In a country where people hang
on to their positions even when they are half in their graves - here is a
man who gave up power and decides to go back to the people for a
majority mandate and be in a position to pass the anti-corruption law
rather than warm the chair. In the meantime , the critics are still
searching for another government that has done so much in 49 days.http://news.in.msn.com/national/what-the-aap-government-achieved-in-49-days . Electing
AAP is not electing a new party – it’s an attempt at changing the
system. A systemic change that will make sure that if a Rahul Gandhi is
born 20 years from now, he won’t do the mistake of thinking his surname
will get him anywhere OR a future Narendra Modi doesn’t need the plank
of hate politics to stake claim to the PM’s chair. Modi or a Rahul or
the political classes are not from Pakistan – they are our own – and we
are here not to destroy them but to change their thinking. We are here
to change our mindsets, fight our habits.

Rahul
says Congress is the answer, BJP says Modi is the answer but Arvind is
saying WE (you and me) are the answer. BJP and Congress will always
remain with its reserves running into crores – but AAP may not survive
if we don’t support it today. Are you comfortable with a babysitter who
has a criminal background to take care of your children? Will you hire
criminals as domestic helps for your parents? Then how can you trust
convicted criminals, rapists and murders to protect your family or
wealth, to lead you and society? Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of our
constitution once remarked, “Rights are protected not by law but by the
social and moral conscience of society”.

This
is India’s chance in history – to set things right – so that our
children will breathe in an air of hope, of equal opportunities, the men
who protect us – will get their due, our women feel safer on the
streets, our young can prosper here and we can soar together unchained
beyond the horizons – and set an example that we a collection of 30
states – as diverse as 30 countries – can be united in our resolve for a
better tomorrow like a smile that would erupt from Kashmir to Kanyakumari when Sachin would raise his hands to the heavens.

(Author is an Entrepreneur and AAP volunteer. email : jimmyforaap@gmail.com)

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Meera Sanyal – AAP Candidate Mumbai South

A distinguished career in banking spanning over 30 years, Meera relinquished her position as CEO and Chairperson of Royal Bank of Scotland in 2013, to devote herself full-time to public service. During her time at the bank, Meera mentored the MicroFinance program, which financed over 650,000 women in rural India She also chaired the bank’s Foundation, providing livelihood assistance to 75,000 women-led households in threatened ecosystems.

The daughter of late Admiral Hiranandani, a highly decorated naval officer, Meera stood in 2009 as an independent candidate for the Lok Sabha elections in the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. Meera and her husband Ashish, campaigned for and raised funds for the AAP in the 2013 Delhi elections. She was recently appointed to the party’s National Committee on Economic Policy.

Meera is a Board member of PRADAN, a member of the International Board of Right to Play, a global NGO that uses the transformative power of play to educate and empower children facing adversity. Meera is also a Board member of Liberals India for Good Governance – the Indian Liberal Group, and serves on the Supervisory Board of Jaihind College. She is a member of various National Committees of both FICCI and CII. In 2011, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, invited her as the sole Indian representative on her International Council on Women’s Business Leadership.

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Why did Arvind Kejriwal resigned as the Delhi Chief Minister?

Well, here is the answer.

AAP got only 28 of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly election. Still, the Lt Governor invited Arvind to form the government, as the Congress (with 8 seats) had offered unconditional support. Finding it hard to believe, Arvind sent a letter to the Congress President listing out the 18 points in the AAP manifesto, including passing of the Jan Lokpal bill. The Congress reverted saying it will support AAP unconditionally on all 18 points. With this commitment, Arvind formed the minority government in Delhi.

However, when AAP presented the Jan Lokpal bill in the Assembly, the Congress and the BJP came together to ensure the bill is not passed. The Aam Aadmi Party had won the vote and trust of citizens of Delhi on the plank of anti corruption. And since the minority government could not pass the Jan Lokpal bill that was promised to citizens of Delhi, Arvind resigned.

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